09:00 Chairman’s Welcome And Opening Speech

Major General (Ret’d) Alan Hawley
Professor of Disaster Medicine
Glamorgan University

09:10Keynote: A Strategic Vision Of Continually Improving The Effectiveness Of Medical Care

• A strategic vision for the AMS
• Utilising Health Support systems to optimise health care
• Challenges we still need help to overcome

Major General Mike von Bertele
Director General Army Medical Services
UK MoD

09:50 Increasing Interoperability Between Medical Forces Of Coalition Partners

• Increasing emphasis on joint military operations, enhancing the importance of coordination of medical support
• Importance of standardisation and interoperability from defence planning to operations
• Objectives of COMEDS and how this affects national forces

Captain Dirk Stoelten
Liaison Officer, COMEDS
NATO

11:00 Army's MC4 System-Medical Communications For Combat Casualty Care (MC4)

• Medical information management for the Army
• Integration challenges
• Deployment, training and support lessons learned

Lieutenant Colonel William Geesey
Product Manager, MC4
US Army

11:40 The Defence Medical Information Capability Programme (DMICP): Supporting Casualty Management

• Achieving anytime and anywhere access to military health records in order to give the best possible care to military personnel
• DMICP being a fully interoperable electronic clinical record system and management information system
• The planned deployment of DMICP to the operational theatre and the expected benefits

Wing Commander Jim White
SO1 Delivery, DMICP Programme, Defence Medical Services Department
UK MoD

12:20 The Future Of Battlefield Health Informatics

• Treating the casualty: The power of information
• Technology and information challenges seen in current operations
• Getting to the future, current initiatives

Tom Rees
Director of Military Personnel Systems
Logica

14:00 Medical CIS In The German Joint Medical Service: Efficient Management Of Medical Information Is Vital For The Medical Support Of Casualties!

• Current and future information needs
• Understanding today's solutions
• What may be possible in the future?

Colonel Stefan Kowitz
Head of the Department X, Future Development, Capability Analysis, Communications and Research
German Bundeswehr Medical Office

14:40 Optimizing Military Medical Readiness Leveraging Information Technology

• Service Delivery Model
• Improved Process Flow
• Enhanced Medical Information Management

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15:50 Supply Chain Management

• Complexity of supplying medical equipment to fixed facilities, expeditionary missions and front line medics
• The technologies that ensure 400,000 items are delivered to theatre each year
• Gaps in capability and opportunities

Colonel Mitchell Brew
Commanding Officer, Medical Material Centre for Europe
ERMC

16:30 The Way Forward: An Interactive Discussion

• What are the main integration and interoperability issues we can minimise?
• What is the role for industry to play in supporting the military?
• Moving on to the 9th year of continued coalition operations in a harsh environment, what are the lessons we need to take forward?

17.00 Chairman’s Comments